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Are short-term lets coming to an end?

Chloe Postlethwaite

Q I lease my home on a six-monthly basis, but I hear that short-term lets are being done away with. Is this true?

A Under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 a new form of residential tenancy (a private residential tenancy) came into effect in Scotland on December 1, 2017. Any residential tenancy created from that date will be a private residential tenancy, which is designed to be simpler for landlords and tenants. For example, under a private residential tenancy there will be no minimum or fixed rolling term under the lease, and the tenancy will continue until the landlord or tenant decide to terminate it.

The act also removes the more complicated notification requirements relating to terminating tenancies and replaces them with a…

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